22 MEN SHOVEL
TO OPEN ROAD
Businessmen and Farmers
Mann Scoops to Cut
300 Yards of Snow
EWING—Business men and
farmers east of Ewing got-to
gether Friday morning for a
snow shoveling party. In less
than three hours they opened
a road two miles east of town
which had been blocked by
the historic November storm.
Twenty-two men used the
old time method of shovel
and-heave to cut through
300 yards of hardpacked,
deep snow south of the Ew
ing cemetery. Their efforts
made possible the opening of
one of the important roads
leading from the Riverside
district to the highway, one
half mile southeast of Ew
ing.
Those from the surrounding
farms who helped were: Z. H.
Fry, William Lofquist, Donald
Larson, Grant Mott, Wayne
Fry, Carol Christon, Norman
Pollock, Alfonz Waslager, and
Fay Primus.
Businessmen from town who
took time off from their work
for this project were: Frank
Nofke, Donald Jensen, Will
Conner, Eben Grafft, Victor
Marquardt, Clyde Allen, T.
B. Jacobson, Ernest Norwood,
Leland Welke, James Mnarik,
Richard Shain, Adrian Muet
ing, and C. Donald Vogel.
Mayor Clyde Allen, John
Walker, president of the Com
mercial club, and Carl Chris
ton of the Riverside area, ar
ranged the “party.”
Yule Decorations
in Table Settings
EWING—The WSCS of the
Ewing Methodist church, held
its regular meeting at the
church Wednesday afternoon,
December 1.
Mrs. A. S. Evans led the
devotions on the Christmas
theme, “They Offered Him
Gifts.” Christmas decorations
were used for the table set
ting by Mrs. Jessie Angus and
Mrs. Earl Billings, who were
hostesses for the luncheon,
which followed the meeting.
Mrs. Billings presided at
the business session. The group
voted to hold over the pres
ent officers until June 1, 1949.
Serving committees for the
next year were selected. A
Christmas party was planned
for Friday, December 17.
Mr and Mrs. Jack Faulk
and children, of Chadron, spent
Friday, November 26, visiting
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Lanman. Mrs. Faulk and
Mrs. Lanman are sisters.
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prairieland talk
(Continued from page 2)
Bleak December comes to
Nebraska bathed in sunlight^
the first day of the last month
of another year that fades in- ;
to the past comparable to a
mild October morning. What
follows this day is not my
guests. As the seasons are ap
pointed, Winter begins Decem
ber 21. But those who exper
ienced the blizzard of Novem
ber 18 hgd to conclude that
almanac makers were a month
behind the weather’s schedule
for this season. — - '
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At 1 o'clock in the morn
ing of Wednesday, December
1, the electric current was
turned on at the state peni
tentiary and another red skin
bit the dust. Timothy Iron
Bear was given every chance
for his life. When he admit
ted guilt before the pardon
board, with the old alibi of
a pint of whiskey, there was
nothing to do but confirm
the sentence of the court.
• • •
School redistricting might be
of some help in the more
thickly settled sections of the
state where children are tak
en to school in busses, but
possibly the advocates of re
districting have not taken in
to account the extensive ter
ritory in this state where there
is no bus service nor ever
will be. Children lope to
school on their ponies. Citizens
and taxpayers, too, are get
ting just a little tired of be
ing bossed by somebody at the
state house.
• • •
The Sunday papers carried
the picture of a plump, well
dressed matron holding upon
her lap a healthy, well fed
child with a toy, a segment of
a group of ‘‘displaced persons”
aboard a vessel bound for
home in America. The picture
arouses a question if there
isn’t something of an organiz
ed propaganda behind the sto
ries of starvation and rags ov
er there in Europe.
• * •
The matron asked her hus
band to accompany her to an
afternoon gathering. He grunt
************** t/mutmtneyn/sflui
ed his refusal Later the ma
tron sat alone in her home,
her husband out somewhere
entertaining himself. They had
been married nearly a quarter
of a century. What is it that
changes gallant young men in
to the self-centered grouch of
middle age.
• « •
A Lincoln concern was
fined $15 for hiring a boy of
13-years-old io work. I can
mention some oldtimers who
wonder why there was not
such a law when they were
kids, - —...
- » i « —
When the husky out on the
Srairie sizzles the hair and
ide of a critter with a hot
branding iron he mignt be in
terested to know that he Was
one of them who paid into the
hands of the state brand com
mitee during the past two
years $268,000.
• • •
There is talk of cluttering
up Nebraska with factories.
That may have an appeal to
ambitious small town commer
cial clubs but to the natives
who must have room in which
to get around it forebodes of
doom.
• • •
Lincoln builders who have
been in the business as rental
investment are reported to
have announced that they are
through, the crest has passed
and the tide ebbs. They will
put up a house now only on
order.
• • •
The talkative young lady
was entertaining, a free flow
of delightful nothings and ap
parently regarded Her syntax
lacking without frequent in
troduction of the phrase, “my
husband,” wanting us to know
she had one.
• • •
One generation builds,
plants, develops communities
out of raw material with bare
nothing. Another generation
comes along, uproots, tears
down, remodels and undo the
; relics of the past.
• • •
Experiments with rats to de
| termine what’s the matter
with us and what we should
eat may be all right for the
I'ltfMTiii'lg'ttf'Isrwisndntfisru
gents toying with the idea, but J
not many of us care to be
classed with the rodents.
* • *
What he said was his first
drink of firewater landed a
Lancaster county gent in court
for drunken driving and he
may conclude the hundred
dollar fine makes it too ex
pensive to try again.
* * #
Mr. Hoover, 74, still the rug
ged individualist, talks elo
quently of a generation that
got their social security out of
the cellar, not from the gov
ernment. Difficulty now is
nobody has a cellar.
♦ » ♦
Gentlemen are Wondering if
they Bhould salute a lady by
raising their hat when they |
meet one dressed like a man. 1
* * *
The delights o f friendly
contacts made in bus travel
are somewhat mitigated
when a spike heel under the
pressure of 180 pounds
comes down on your foot.
* * *
The Swiss word for youth is
jugend, in our termology de- i
scriptive of a few we have I
over here.
• • •
Linpoln has within its con
fines 162 practicing attorneys
and 268 physicians.
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EWING—The Forum Group
of the United Presbyterian
church met Thursday evening,
December 2, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Rickard.
Mrs. Dale Napier led the meet
ing. The roll call was answer
ed by those present by recit
ing a Bible verse containing
the word “peace.” After the
meeting, the group played
i Christmas games. It was decid
ed to send a gift to Laura
MacLachlan, missionary in Pa
kistan.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred McNally,
of North Platte, and James
McNally, of Humphrey, arriv
ed Friday evening for a visit
in the Richard Tomlinson
i home.
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